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A64647	The great necessity of unity and peace among all Protestants, and the bloody principles of the papists made manifest by the most eminently pious and learned Bishop Usher ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1688 (1688)	Wing U178; ESTC R23183	27,278	20

the authority of Clement the 8. to omit other testimonies in this kind it is concluded that the Cross of the Popes Legate shall have the right hand upon this very reason quia debetur et ●atria because the worship proper to God is due to it Now whether they commit Idolatry who communicate unto a senseless thing that worship which they themselves confess to be due unto God alone let all the world judge They were best therefore from henceforth confess themselves to be Idolaters and stand to it that every kind of Idolatry is not unlawful Their Jesuite Gregorius de Valentia will tell them for their comfort that it is no absurdity to think that St. Peter when he deterreth the faithful by name ab illicit is Idolerum cultibus St. Peter calleth them that is abominable Idolatries doth insinuate thereby that some worship of Images is lawful John Monceye the Frenchman in his Aaron Purgatus dedicated to the late Pope Paul 5. and in his 20 questions propounded to Visorius stretcheth yet a strain higher For howsoever he cannot away with the name of Idols and Idolatry yet he liketh the thing it self so well that he undertaketh to clear Aaron from committing any error in setting up the golden Calf and laboureth to purge Laban and Micha and Jeroboam too from the imputation of idolatry having found indeed that nothing had been done by them in this kind which is not agreeable to the practice of the Roman Church at this day And lest the poor people whom they have so miserably abused should find how far they have been misled we see that the masters of that Church do in the Service books and Catechisms which come unto the hands of the vulgar generally leave out the words of the second Commandment that make against the adoration of images fearing lest by the light thereof the mistery of their iniquity should be discovered They pretend indeed that this Commandment is not excluded by them but included only in the first whereas in truth they do but craftily conceal it from the peoples eyes because they would not have them to be ruled by it Nay Vasquez the Jesuit doth boldly acknowledge that it plainly appeareth by comparing the words of this Commandment with the place which hath been alledged out of Deut. 4. that the Scripture did not only forbid the worshipping of an image for God but also the adoration of the true God himself in an image He confesseth further that he and his fellow Catholicks do otherwise What saith he then to the commandment think you Because it will not be obey'd it must be repeal'd and not admitted to have any place among the moral precepts of God. It was saith he a positive and ceremonial Law and therefore ought to cease in the time of the Gospel And as if it had not been enough for him to match the Scribes and Pharisces in impiety who made the Commandments of God of none effect that they might keep their own traditions that he might fulfil the measure of his fathers and shew himself to be a true child of her who beareth the name of being the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth Rev. 17 5. he is yet more mad and sticketh not to maintain that not only a painted Image but any other thing of the world whether it be without life and reason or whether it be a reasonable creature may in the nature of the thing and if the matter be discreetly handled be adored with God as his image yea and counteth it no absurdity at all that a very wisp of straw should be thus worshipped But let us turn yet again and we shall see greater abominations than these Ezek. 8. 15. We heard how this blessed Sacrament which is here propounded by the Apostle as a bond to unite Christians together in one body hath been made the Apple of strife and the occasion of most bitter breaches in the Church we may now observe again that the same holy Sacrament which by the same Apostle is here brought in as a principal inducement to make men flee from Idolatry is by our Adversaries made the object of the grossest Idolatry that ever hath been practised by any For their constant doctrine is that in worshipping the Sacrament they should give unto it ●atriae cul●um qui vero Deo debetur as the Councel of Trert hath determined ' that kind of service which is due to the true God determining their worship in that very thing which the Priest doth hold betwixt his hands Their practice also runs accordingly for an instance whereof we need go no further than to Sanders book of the Lords Supper before which he hath prefixed an Epistle Dedicatory superscribed in this manner To the Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ under the forms of Bread and Wine all honour praise and thinks be given for ever Adding further in the process of that blockish Epistle Howsoever it be with other men I adore thee my God and Lord really present under the forms of Bread and Wine after consecration duly made Beseeching thee of pardon for my sins c. Now if the conceit which these men have concerning the Sacrament should prove to be false as indeed we know it to be most absurd and monstruous their own Jesuit Cosler doth freely confess that they should be in such an error and Idolatry qualis in orbe terratum nunquam vel visus vel auditus fuit as never was seen or heard in this world For the error of them is more tolerable saith he who worship for God a Statue of gold or silver or an Image of any other matter as the Gentiles adored their Gods or a red cloth lifted up upon a spear as it is reported of the Lappians or living Creatures as did sometime the Egyptians than of those that worship a piece of bread We therefore who are verily perswaded that the Papists do thus must of force if we follow their Jesuits direction judge them to be the most intolerable idolaters that ever were Nay according to their own principles how is it possible that any of themselves should certainly know that the Host which they worship should be any other thing but bread seeing the change doth wholly depend upon consecration duly made as Sanders speaketh and that rependeth upon the intention of the Priest which no man but himself can have notice of Bellarmin disputing against Ambrosius Catharinus one of his own brethren that a man hath no certain knowledge of his own justification can take advantage of this and alledge for himself that one cannot be certain by the certainty of faith that he doth recive a true Sacrament for as much as the Sacrament cannot be made without the intention of the Minister and none can see another mans intention Apply this now to the matter we have in hand and see into what intricate Labyrinths these men have brought themselves Admit the Priests intention stood right at the